ComViewer: An Interactive Visual Tool to Help Viewers Seek Social Support in Online Mental Health Communities
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| author | Wu, Shiwei Wang, Mingxiang Shi, Chuhan Peng, Zhenhui |
| author_facet | Wu, Shiwei Wang, Mingxiang Shi, Chuhan Peng, Zhenhui |
| contents | Online mental health communities (OMHCs) offer rich posts and comments for viewers, who do not directly participate in the communications, to seek social support from others' experience. However, viewers could face challenges in finding helpful posts and comments and digesting the content to get needed support, as revealed in our formative study (N=10). In this work, we present an interactive visual tool named ComViewer to help viewers seek social support in OMHCs. With ComViewer, viewers can filter posts of different topics and find supportive comments via a zoomable circle packing visual component that adapts to searched keywords. Powered by LLM, ComViewer supports an interactive sensemaking process by enabling viewers to interactively highlight, summarize, and question any community content. A within-subjects study (N=20) demonstrates ComViewer's strengths in providing viewers with a more simplified, more fruitful, and more engaging support-seeking experience compared to a baseline OMHC interface without ComViewer. We further discuss design implications for facilitating information-seeking and sense making in online mental health communities. |
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| spellingShingle | ComViewer: An Interactive Visual Tool to Help Viewers Seek Social Support in Online Mental Health Communities Wu, Shiwei Wang, Mingxiang Shi, Chuhan Peng, Zhenhui Human-Computer Interaction Online mental health communities (OMHCs) offer rich posts and comments for viewers, who do not directly participate in the communications, to seek social support from others' experience. However, viewers could face challenges in finding helpful posts and comments and digesting the content to get needed support, as revealed in our formative study (N=10). In this work, we present an interactive visual tool named ComViewer to help viewers seek social support in OMHCs. With ComViewer, viewers can filter posts of different topics and find supportive comments via a zoomable circle packing visual component that adapts to searched keywords. Powered by LLM, ComViewer supports an interactive sensemaking process by enabling viewers to interactively highlight, summarize, and question any community content. A within-subjects study (N=20) demonstrates ComViewer's strengths in providing viewers with a more simplified, more fruitful, and more engaging support-seeking experience compared to a baseline OMHC interface without ComViewer. We further discuss design implications for facilitating information-seeking and sense making in online mental health communities. |
| title | ComViewer: An Interactive Visual Tool to Help Viewers Seek Social Support in Online Mental Health Communities |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19169 |